neuroscience

Antibodies for Studying NMDA Receptor Protein Expression and Synapse-Specific Immunolabeling

New antibodies for neuroscience research Danny Q. Hoang Michael Browning Xinping Yang PeterPingerelli Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. Stratagene introduces affinity purified antibodies for NMDA receptorsubunits that are useful for studying expression of the NR2A, NR2B an...

Gene-Specific Primers for NMDA Receptor Subunits

Additional tools for neuroscience researchers Robert Buchner Peter L. Pingerelli Michael D. Browning Mary Ellen Simcox Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. Stratagene is now offering gene-specific primer sets for the rat and humanNMDA receptor. In this article, we describe using t...

Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) and Expression Profiling of Long-Range Projection Neurons

...ut these circuit elements, both important goals in neuroscience research. Introduction The brain is a highly heterogeneous organ, with a wide variety of cell types identifiable by location, morphology, physiology, and connectivity. Connectivity, or a cells place in a neural circuit, is an imp...

The 10 biggest events shaping biotech in 2006

...D-based specialty Pharma company with expertise in neuroscience and oncology. The Indians seem to be watching this model carefully and mimicking it. Biogenerics in the U.S. Part and parcel to the earlier point, and led by the world's second largest generic company, Novartis , is the approval of the first bio...

UW-Madison has 7 Sloan research fellows, top in nation

...cience, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience and physics. Sloan Fellowships carry a two-year, $45,000 stipend. The winners are: Helen Blackwell , assistant professor of chemistry. Blackwell says that she will use the grant to study the mechanisms of bacterial communication. "We are developi...

UW offers new program in neuroscience and public policy

...have created a new dual-degree graduate program in neuroscience and public policy to train students how to apply s...been slow to respond to the importance of bringing neuroscience to bear on public policy," said Ronald Kalil, a professor of neuroscience in the department of ophth...

The Scientist magazine names Madison "hotspot" for biotechnology

...oncology, cardiovascular and respiratory sciences, neuroscience and regenerative medicine. This research strength is backed up by what the article calls an "unabashedly entrepreneurial" attitude, which encourages researchers to start new companies from their inventions. It is easier to get a company started thr...

Rennebohm foundation gives $15m to UW for medical research

...e medicine such as stem cells, molecular medicine, neuroscience and cardiology. Governor Jim Doyle and university representatives announced the latest Rennebohm donation on Friday....

Froedtert and Medical College plan $120 million expansion

...square feet to its hospital for cardiovascular and neuroscience outpatient services. Froedtert President and CEO Bill Petasnick sees this as part of a tred toward more outpatient care. He said the cost of the project, which would be financed primarily through debt and donations, would not raise the center's rate...